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...come to these conclusions until after the big disaster hits - as was the case with Miami and South Florida, where I live, in the wake of Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Today, when a major storm approaches Miami, the buses are out and the shutters are up-I put mine up twice last summer for hurricanes I knew probably weren't even going to strike. I saw little evidence of that preparedness along the Gulf coast; few houses had strongly-shuttered windows, and evacuation busses, according to residents, were in short supply. "It's just the New Orleans mentality," one Orleanian...
...Death Cab's lyrics, spends a lot of time waxing nostalgic for a past that wasn't that long ago (Summer Skin, Someday You Will Be Loved), and when he looks to the future, he sees mostly death. I Will Follow You into the Dark opens with "Love of mine, someday you will die." What Sarah Said is set in an ICU "that reeked of piss and 409" and espouses the yearbook wisdom that "love is watching someone die." Gibbard pitches most of his morbidity in an assuring middle range; he doesn't sound like he's singing so much...
...slight? At what point do we start to alter the functional ecology?" The loss of the diminutive snails, fish and other organisms that dwell in desert springs would be important to more than just ecologists and taxonomists. Those tiny animals are indicator species, the canaries in the environmental coal mine that provide the first warning that the whole system is coming unhinged. "When these organisms disappear," says University of Michigan zoologist Gerald Smith, "it will signal the end of water quality and water permanence for humans in desert regions...
...analysts Kelsey Group. The individual pages contained on any of these sites or their blogging cousins may appear trivial: minutiae about cats' feeding habits, or the favorite break-up songs of teenage girls. But companies are banking on the notion that, in the aggregate, these pages represent a gold mine of credible consumer information. "Whether you are referring someone to either a great restaurant or a local hairstylist, since the lead came from a trusted source, there's a good chance that the person will be much more qualified to react not just to the content on the page...
...good marriage for more than 50 years and have six healthy, well-educated children. We have contributed equally to our assets and have half in my name, half in his. Our estate (worth about $3 million) is in revocable living trusts that are mirror images of each other. In mine, my husband is the successor trustee, and our children are beneficiaries. He thus has no restrictions on how he uses the principal. How can I be sure that our children will inherit our estate if he should remarry? I think he may, which is O.K. with me as long...